Bootable CD,s and DVD,s

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Maurice Helwig

I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible to
put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another possibility
is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated

Maurice Helwig

moritzATspinDOTnetDOTau
 
Rich_on 29-Apr-2006 said:
I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible to
put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another possibility
is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated
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It is possible to put a collection of bootable floppy disk images on a CD
and boot from one via a menu.
Not much used these days. Starting point is:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
 
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au> said:
I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible
to put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another
possibility is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated

Maurice Helwig

moritzATspinDOTnetDOTau
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Yes. There is a Disgobootable.zip from Discgo lying around somewhere,
another one is HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip from Hewlett Packard, and don't
forget Bart PE which is infinitely superior. You can do NTFS format as
well, but I've never used that particular tool and can't comment on its
performance. Look out for readntfs.exe, which will enable you to view in
LFN and manipulate files. It's a bit like an old fashioned DOS
interface, say PC Tools.

I've tried to find the files I've mentioned using google, but haven't
had any luck, so let me know if I can help some more.
 
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<44531977$0$516$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.
au> said:
I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible
to put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another
possibility is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated

Maurice Helwig

moritzATspinDOTnetDOTau
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Just found a useful item that is still available.

Home page for the advice:

http://www.sysanalyser.com/floppydisk.htm#_USB-STICK

First make a bootable floppy:

http://www.sysanalyser.com/floppydisk.htm#_FLOPPY_DISK

Then use this:

http://www.sysanalyser.com/sp27213.exe

The one I favour was mentioned here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2004/10/utility_to_make_usb_flash_driv.html

but the download link is now dead, since I downloaded the files in mid
March.

Searching HPs site doesn't help:

http://search.hp.com/query.html?qt=...l=hpcom+ccen&ref=http://www.hp.com/error.html

I know it was there. I downloaded it.

Perhaps one of the results from here will have it:

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html

You can boot from a floppy and read NTFS files using this:

http://www.datapol.de/dpe/recovery/ntfs/index.html

http://www.wsdownload.de/download/ntfs4dos/ntfsinst.exe

There's a splash screen but, if you install it on a floppy and then
extract readntfs.exe, it goes nicely on your DOS USB stick and it won't
nag you because you aren't using their shell, which is the source of
this discomfort. :-)

So much for the DOS option.

If you make a Bart PE USB stick you won't need any of these. It's free
and the range of free plugins is truly something to behold. The only
problem is that you will need a windows installation disc, rather than
an image restore discs.

There is also a range of commercial plugins, like Acronis Version 8, the
power of which is worth the money.

It means that, short of a disc crash, I am not at the mercy of experts.
It gave me the sort of power that I have not had since using a DOS based
system with a tape streamer.
 
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<44531977$0$516$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.
au> said:
I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible
to put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another
possibility is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated

Maurice Helwig
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LOL, I've been in between the garden and the shower whilst doing this
and finally managed to find you a link. I felt I had to do it, because I
remembered the long period of time that I had no way to read NTFS from a
prompt. So here it is, and now you can too:

http://selfdestruct.net/misc/usbboot/HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip

I have no idea how reliable it is, but I am sure you have a good AV
programme and, besides, I think he'd have been taken down by now.

If not, ask and I can write you.

Have a good one.
 
Maurice said:
I have a number of utilities on bootable floppy disks. Is it possible to
put them on CD,s or DVD,s or maybe all on one disk. Another possibility
is to put them all on a bootable memory stick.
Is there any freeware that can be used to do this easily. My wife is
getting a laptop computer with no FD drive.

Any help would be appreciated

Maurice Helwig

moritzATspinDOTnetDOTau
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Thanks for all your help - I will follow up all the suggestions

Maurice Helwig
 
I have also made a cd like that
my method is make a windows bootfloppy
and make any burn program a boot cd and place all the utils in different
folders. works fine by me
 
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